Check-book.



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CHECK BOOK- APPLICATION FILED SEPT- l0. 1917.

Ptented July 30, 1918.

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CHECK-BOOK.

Specifcationjof Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1918.

Application filed September 10, 1917. Serial No. 190,464.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that GASPAR fl. loimnonrnu, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Richmond, in the coluity of Richmond and State ot' New York, has invented certain new and useful Improvements inthecklooks, of which the following is a speciication.

rThis invention relates to means for preventing the raising of checks and my improvement has particular relation to a conibined holder and cutter for checks; whereby, in conjunction with certain printed indications upon the stub portions, the checks may be severed from their stubs in manner to clearly and unchangeably indicate their approximate value.

lu brief my invention consists of a Ytraine or holder, having means of attachment to a check book cover, and itselii being receptive oit a check pad, which may be removably engaged thereby. A transverse cutter is adjustably connected to said frame,l and is intended to be pressed against the stub portion of the check while the negotiable portion thereof is being severed. The check stubs employed herewith bear a progressive arrangement of valuation indications, and the check is to be severed at a point in its stub iust beyond the indication nearest above the amount for which. the check isto be drawn.

Hence the check, when issued, is protected through bearing a. marginal indication. to the effect that the check value does not exceed a certain amount.

@ther features and advantages of my said invention will hereinafter appear.

In the drawings Figure l is a plan view of a check book with the cover extended open and showing my improved check holder and cutter.

F ig. 2 is a detail perspective View of the check holder and cutter.

l have for example illustrated my invention as applied to a pocket check book,

wherein 1 indicates a cover portion, 2 a pady of checks, and 3 a frame or binding device, whereby the, pad of checks may be secured to the cover. Said frame may comprise a channel or trough member, having means checks, which are inserted therein at the' stub end of the pad. l

ln this manner the check pads may be renewable, while the frame 3 may, if desired, bc permanently connected to the cover. l have shown said frame with the opposite end. lugs el, l, to be entered within slits 5, 5, in the inner surface of the cover, near its rear, flexing portion, as a means of connection. v

rlhe traine 3, which lies transversely across the cover, to serve as an end holder or binder for the pad of checks, is provided at one end with a right angular extension or guide rail 6, here shown as lying along the upper edge-of the check pad for a portion of the length of the latter.

Said guide rail t3 carries a member 7, here represented. as a flat strip of still material that lies transversely across the face of the check pad, and is slidably adjustable upon said guide rail, in parallelism with the frame 3. The member 7 has a forward edge 8, capable ot' serving as a cutterto sever checks from the stub portion.

The slidable connection between the member 7 and 'ail 6 may be effected by forming parallel. slits 9 in said member, and fitting said member by said slits upon said rail, which is passed therethrough and over the intervening portion of the rail material.

The checks employed with my improved holder are arranged in pad form, t'. i., with their rear edges connected together, to lit en bloc within the frame 3.

Each check is provided, over its stub portion, with a series et printed valuation designations, in transverse, parallel lines,'the amounts expressed progressing from front to rear ol said stub portion. Thus the line of print next the negotiable portion of the check may read Not over live dollars, the next line Not over ten dollars, and so on.

.he purpose is that the negotiable portion of a check, when severed from its stub portion, shall. carry with it one or more ot'these lines ot' print, the terminal line thereof, next the severed rear edge of' the check, indicating the set sum which is next above the amount expressed by the check, as drawn.

Hence, fraudulent raising of the check, 'thus protected, is rendered nugatory, because the banker would not pay a larger llo amount than that expressed in the inal iin@ of vanation indicated.

1i, Shoilid no pnrtioninriy observed that with the forni of Snack described, and my impiocfi book and severing means, no miditionai step is needed, in issuing the check, to protect it.

Tho adjustzibi-o oniter is hund7 and has inoreiy to be moved over ihn stub portion until its forward effige is n die roar of tim 'v'siination line of print.- Tiwn 'the user presses Smid cutter strip agnin in@ pari, with one hund, und with the o'her hand Sovers the dieci-z.

fwnriziiions muy be rnsoriwi to Within the spirit and Scopo of my Said invention un@ paris thereof used wiiiont oi'hcrs.

claim z- A Tho combination, in n Check book hzwlng a @over and checks therein whose stub portions bear transversely readingviines of progressive valuation, of a ruil mounted on the rover and extending alongside of and transijrso o the reading iinvs, and a check-stub severing cutter siidably carried by said rail, Suid cutter lying ionghwiso of said reading iinos.

Signed :it the borough of Richmond, in the county of Richmond and Stute oi' New York i'his 27th day of August A. D. 1917.

SPAR J. IORNDORFER.

Viiitncnwcs:

Josnrn E. ViLLiAMs, EDWARD 5. Viminmcr. 

